The house is finally a home!!

Here are the pictures that everyone has been waiting for! The house is finally finished and we absolutly love it and how all the renovations turned out!

Joe's 'man cave' complete with stuffed animals and toys :)
Finally a storage room that isn't a closet!!!

The awesome media room that my dad and joe built!

Garage

Craft room/office (We have enough room for both of us to have a desk!)

Madi's Monkey room

Looking at the guest bathroom and bedroom from the hallway

Looking into the master bath and closet (all built by joe and my dad, I picked out the tile :))

Awesome tile job done by my dad!

Master bedroom

looking in from the front door

living room

Dining room

Backyard (soon we'll have grass, all the rain as put it off for about a month)

Powder room

Kitchen looking out

Kitchen

Walking, talking and dancing

Madi has become quite the little lady lately. She finally started walking on her own and there doesn't seem to be anyone or anything that can stop her. She also has become very opinated and likes to pick out her own cloths in the morning. (Yesterday I had to let her wear her leotard and butterfly tutu. She also has been talking none stop and I am hoping one day that I will be able to actually understand her! She has been adjusting wonderfully to the new house and loves that she has toys and books in just about every room of the house. We finally moved into the house March 12th and have gotten unpacked and used to living on our own again. We were also able to have a great long weekend in Utah over Easter visiting my sister and grandparents it was great and Madi learned how to dance. She now has been dancing none stop everytime there is music on. We love her and she is definently keeping us busy!

Cool girl shades
future ballet dancer :)

Head, shoulders, knees, and toes

This is how she went to church, she picked out everything right down to the shoes, purse, and bracelets! (yes I know we are in trouble)

one hot day...

Madi over heard us talking about getting a swimming pool this summer....

next thing we know she is letting us know she agrees by playing in the dogs bowl...

keeping busy while mom cooks dinner

Learning to stand or doing yoga were not sure...

Reading her books, one of her most favorite things.

Maybe she will be the one who actually plays the piano

(since neither joe or I do the piano just kind of sits there)

Best buds!

Sleepover at Auntie Cycsle and Tot (Crystal and Scott)

Learning to dance

Where it all began...

So obviously I have been very neglectful in blogging for the past few months but I really do have good cause... Madi is doing well and is growing up and getting into everything. She has figured out how to walk on her own but she refuses simply because if she doesn't have a hand to hold then she knows that no one is following her... She also has started talking quite a bit and is very social. With the addition of 2 new nephews and a new little friend she also has become very interested in babies. She is very sweet when she plays with them but doesn't quite understand why they won't come when she calls them. The biggest news for us is that we finally closed on our house February 19th!!! Yes we own a home and yes we have yet to live in it :-(. This new house has kept us quite busy, hence the lack of blogging.

Now to explain the house situation. Yes we did buy a brand new house and it is wonderful, however we were very grateful to be able to make our house exactly how we wanted it and started the home improvement projects only a mer few hours after we signed the papers! First we pulled up the carpet and linoleum in the front room and kitchen. I didn't want to have to worry about constantly cleaning the front room carpet with a kid, dog, and mud for a yard so I really wanted wood in the front room. We decided that putting the wood throughout the whole main level would really open up the house so we finished that project and continued to the rest of the house. The builder build our house with a bonus room above the garage that they leave completely unfinished. We chose to use that large space as our master bedroom and so we had to add a bathroom and closet and finish the room up. With the upstairs started we carried on down to the basement. We have a full unfinished basement that we finished about half into a tv family room. So as you can tell these aren't the smallest or easiest projects but about 6 weeks later we are finally ready for the final inspections and will hopefully be moving in sometime this week!!! I currently have the before pictures and will post the after ones when I get things cleaned up! I definitely like the after better than the before what do you think??

Before: unfinished bonus room

Madi's room (1 of 3 others they pretty much all look the same)

Before: Kitchen
After: Kitchen

Before: Kitchen looking to front door
After: Kitchen

Before: Looking into kitchen from front door

After: Looking into kitchen from front door